opinion
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Navigating choppy waters
Amanat Ali Chaudhry
The writer, a Chevening scholar, studied International Journalism at the University of Sussex.As the Biden Administration prepares to complete the drawdown of its forces from Afghanistan, the region...
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Elections in AJK
Dr Danish Khan
A fresh round of general elections is set to take place in Azad Jammu & Kashmir on July 25, 2021. Historically, elections in AJK have been easy to predict – the political party at the helm of...
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Populist interviews
Muhammad Abdul Basit
Pakistan’s officials recently gave a few interviews to the foreign media which have led to questions in the international arena.Some of the stances taken have been bold, like denying any prospects...
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Electronic voting: panacea or disaster?
Faizan Akhtar
The Elections Bill 2021 recently sailed through the National Assembly without any debate even though it changed two crucial provisions of the Elections Act, 2017 dealing with the right to vote to...
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A denuclearized future
Tom Engelhardt
In the pandemic year 2020, 76 years after two American atomic bombs left the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in ashes, the world’s nuclear powers actually increased spending on nuclear weapons by...
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Hottest summer
Simon Whalley
This is just the opening salvo. As the American west is gripped by potentially the worst drought since algebra was invented 1,200 years ago and temperature records are once again shattered on a...